List of Famous people born in Hesse, Germany

Stephan Weidner, also known as Der W, is a musician and music producer. From 25 November 1980 until 18 June 2005 he was the bassist, songwriter and leader of the German hard-rock band Böhse Onkelz. Weidner was also a singer with Nordend Antistars, a collaboration with Sub7even singer Daniel Wirtz. In April 2008 Weidner's first solo album Schneller, Höher, Weidner was released.

Johannes Herber is a former German basketball player. In 2006, he completed a U.S. college career at West Virginia University. In America, he was generally known as Joe Herber.

Anna Carlsson is a German voice actress from Frankfurt am Main. She voices in the German-language dubs of a number of animation and anime productions including Kim Possible. The Little Mermaid, Lilo & Stitch: The Series, Cardcaptor Sakura, Dr. Slump and Dragon Ball. In live-action dubbing she voiced in Desperate Housewives, Angel and Samantha Who?. She is the dub voice for Eva Longoria, Piper Perabo, Zooey Deschanel, and Amy Smart on a number of films and shows. She is fluent in the languages of German, English and Swedish.

Ludwig Schick is a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as auxiliary bishop of Fulda from 1998 till 2002, when he became archbishop of Bamberg.

Christopher Reinhard is a German former professional footballer who played as a defender.

Julia Schramm is a German politician and publicist. From April to October 2012, she was a member of the federal executive of the Pirate Party. She left the party in 2014 and joined the Left in 2016.

Emre Güral is a Turkish footballer who currently plays as a forward for Ankaragücü.

Pia Mechler is a German born actress, director and author.

Elvira Bach is a postmodernist German painter known for her colourful images of women. A member of the Junge Wilde art movement, she lives and works in Berlin. She is the mother of two children, including basketball player Maodo Lô.

Malte Herwig is a German-born author, journalist, and literary critic. His articles have appeared widely in U.S., British and German publications, including The New York Times, The Observer, Vanity Fair, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, Süddeutsche Zeitung and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. He studied German Literature, History and Politics at the universities of Oxford, Harvard, and Mainz, and is a former Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. In 2008, Herwig was the first to publish some of Vladimir Nabokov's original index cards from the author's last unfinished novel The Original of Laura. In the accompanying article, Herwig concluded that "Laura", although fragmentary, was "vintage Nabokov". He is the author of several books, among them a biography of Austrian poet Peter Handke and a study of the greatest Nazi cover-up in post-war Germany, "Die Flakhelfer", which will be published in English in 2014.